futureGov, 6 Mar 2009, Robin Hicks
Despite security fears raised by the “G-fail” incident last week, when an overloaded data centre in Europe prevented millions of Gmail users from accessing their accounts, the Singapore government has given cloud computing its vote of confidence.
A spokesperson from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) told FutureGov that it recognises cloud computing, in which Google provides numerous services for businesses and government, as “an important next paradigm” in information technology.
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